Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Mary's Execution Scene (3/10) | Movieclips

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mary's Execution: Mary Stuart (Samantha Morton) is executed for treason.
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Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) faces threats to her rule from abroad and at home. Determined to restore England to Roman Catholicism, Spain's King Philip II dispatches his armada. Sworn to her country body and soul, Elizabeth must resist her love for charismatic seafarer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) and watch as he and her handmaiden grow closer. Finally, trusted adviser Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) uncovers a plot involving her cousin Mary Stuart.
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Cast: Clive Owen, Tom Hollander, Abbie Cornish, Samantha Morton, John Shrapnel, Cate Blanchett, Laurence Fox
Screenwriter: Michael Hirst, William Nicholson
Director: Shekhar Kapur
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[@derpmanthefirst1754]

Some things to note: - The first axe swing hit the back of her head. The second axe swing *almost* decapitated Mary, but the small bit of sinew stopped the executioner, Bull. He had to basically saw off the rest. - When Bull lifted up her severed head and said "God Save the Queen", her wig detached itself and caused her head to drop, revealing her gray, short hair. - Somehow Mary managed to hide a godamn dog in her skirts, which emerged after the execution. So basically you got a dead queen with a fake wig, a puppy running around, and a whole ton of blood everywhere. The 1500s was *the time* to be alive.

[@AlexTheCreator3]

I'm sorry her execution was not funny but the God danm dog just had be cackling for 5 min

[@macncheese9753]

Facts

[@Irish381]

@@AlexTheCreator3 should have used the Razor National The French perfected death by decapitation!

[@thehoneyeffect]

Rancid

[@tinavino1575]

I guess, to her, the dog was much more precious than any blings she owned then.

[@LucyLovettLestrange]

The words that she silently whispered to the executioner were: “I forgive you with all my heart.”

[@johnschmidt2818]

Thank you for telling us. I read her lips to see she said I forgive you but did not know the rest of what she said.

[@LucyLovettLestrange]

@@johnschmidt2818You’re welcome

[@glennkurtzrock]

I don't think she would have forgiven him if she realized how badly he'd botch the actual execution.

[@LucyLovettLestrange]

@@glennkurtzrockFrom what I’ve read, the first strike got her right in the back of the skull

[@daniel_sc1024]

Actually, as was custom, the axe-man asked for forgiveness before the execution, and she gave it to him. What she said upon laying her head on the block was "Into thine hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit." Also, she was blindfolded so there was no way for her to lift her head up to face the executioner.

[@jzwalz51robin45]

Interesting that this did not depict how the execution really went. It was not a clean kill, he initially missed her neck and struck her head. The second strike was only partial and the axeman had to saw off her head. It was a grisly scene.

[@Peripepp]

There was another movie which depicted it rather more accurately, idk the name tho

[@georgeflamehand2100]

i cant remember where i was reading it but yes the blow was mistruck

[@nanky432]

It happens, there was a reason your family members would always bribe the executioner before your death. It meant they weren’t drunk when doing the act, or god forbid had a dull axe when the time came. My guess is the executioner was probably not drunk if he was executing a royal for the queen herself. He probably did get paid to make the execution as painful as can be without the queen having Mary physically hanged, drawn and quartered in a public square.

[@Noramythseeker]

This was not information I needed but I am thankful to you for letting me know.

[@daisoelderdragon9264]

that was too much for a movie but thanks.

[@Holeyguagaamoley]

My understanding was that it was an axe but she was well liked and popular so the axeman had some stiff drinks to get the job done and missed, hitting between the shoulder blades this did not kill her and she let out a terrible scream they then had trouble getting the axe out of her back and then had trouble hitting the target as she was jumping around a bit. Many blows later her head was finally removed. The axeman held it up and her bald head fell out from under the ornate wig. They also tell of a horrible whine coming from the body, it turns out her pet dog was hiding in her large dress. This is why they don’t show the real execution as it would have been difficult to show compassion for Elizabeth after this…the real game of thrones

[@oneGodtobe]

So what happened to the axeman for the botched job?

[@jamief1263]

I thought it was only two blows, but yes the axeman botched the job.

[@jiricelypotok6724]

The First Blow hit the back of her head, the second severed the neck all but for a Sinew, so a third cut took it completely off.

[@MrKingtyrant05]

Wow....I never knew. That's so haunting.

[@Diodontgivadayum]

+1 for your name referencing Hitchhiker's Guide 😁

[@theringer2283]

I had a history teacher in college who taught us that when he was in studies in England, they had discussed how some favored individuals or well respected individuals who were going to be executed were often given opium that would allow their mind to flutter in and out and rest more calmly. I hope that was true! Since it’s a truly horrifying experience.

[@wingriddenangel8407]

i would hope so, the real execution was all the more brutal and bloody.

[@nczioox1116]

Id believe that. Not even out of mercy, but just so the execution would look more dignified to the public

[@Graffbomr]

Hell no they should've felt every thing and died terrified .

[@janebufton6494]

Quick, but Brutal!

[@db5202]

No coming back from appeals.

[@michaellynes3540]

1:47 What Mary said to the executioner was "I forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles."

[@johnschmidt2818]

Thanks.

[@gennaronarducci1333]

But she mean to the executioner or about elizabeth?

[@N.A.S101]

@@gennaronarducci1333"the executioner.

[@spacegoat_3d801]

Fr ? You were there ?

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Mary never committed a sin

[@deeya]

I liked that they showed her hesitancy and anxiety over it, culminating in wanting to call it off (probably an artistic liberty at that last bit). Because she didn't actually want Mary's death, she was pressured by her advisors, in spite of her instinct's telling her that Mary's death would create more problems.

[@Confederate-hj2dc]

I’m no expert at this particular event, but I heard that Elizabeth was merely acting sad about the execution to earn popularity points with the people and other nobles. In truth, she knew it was necessary, and even enjoyed the prospect of getting rid of Mary, Queen of Scots once and for all.

[@KL-ki8db]

Also, Elizabeth's sister Mary Tudor (not to be confused with Mary Stuart) has executed their other cousin Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen. It would look super bad to be following in her sister's footsteps of "Bloody Mary".

[@MarcPiery]

Bullshit. She DEFINITELY wanted Mary’s death. She wanted control over Scotland. Elizabeth was a power hungry monster.

[@kellyvaters1689]

@@paulastiles8873 She had no choice; he was her nearest relative.

[@g.c.4824]

She actually was so troubled by this choice that she got sick and thus the parliament passed a law that automatically condemned mary to death for treason

[@TLW369]

When she’s at the block and looks up at the throne. Such a stunning sequence.

[@naeriontargaryen6818]

She looks to it, knowing her Son James will sit upon the Throne of England one day.

[@g.c.4824]

@@naeriontargaryen6818 the social place james was at the time of her execution would have led her to believe he'd be in exile all his life probably, maybe the throne was an allegory for seeing her cousin that brought her to the gallows

[@doccal5896]

No mask?

[@jerwin2885]

@@doccal5896 The idea of the mask is more Hollywood than real. The executioners were known and reviled. They often were paid little and had to travel about to various towns. They also performed other undesirable work such as clearing roadkill from the roads etc... to supplement their income. There was definitely a stigma attached, some places even reserving the executioner's own tankard to avoid "contamination" from him. There are even accounts of his pay being thrown at him, rather than handed to him to avoid touching him. Sometimes criminals were recruited as executioners to get out of their own sentences. It was that hard to recruit.

[@jerwin2885]

@@doccal5896 sorry, I went on a bit, but yeah, people knew who they were and avoided them, so the mask wouldn't help.

[@conorchristmas6844]

In truth Mary’s execution was Game of Throned and drag raced. It had everything, drunk executioner, blunt tools ,gore, animals and finished off with a wig reveal. But this artistic interpretation is beautiful.

[@arsyafkrn8972]

LOLLL 🤣

[@NyanHabeny]

"a wig reveal" LMFAOOO

[@Nicoleapanda]

Why did this comment remind me of stephan from SNL lol “ this run down castle in london has everything ! “

[@ashitaka2686]

Not a wig ruveal!! 😩

[@tilesetter1953]

It's total B. S.!!!!!

[@ghostnappa2311]

Wow reading the comments you realize this is probably one of the most brutal deaths to take place in real life

[@Some_No_Mai]

Ummm do you know how slaves, women accused of being witches, and the like were typically killed and tortured?

[@luich2275]

Seriously? Wow you are so innocent

[@luich2275]

Getting the heart of a man alive, cutting the head with a chainsaw alive of curse, happens all the time in Mexico and sicarios make videos to send them to victims families specially their moms they love that

[@szepi79]

it was still over relatively quick. I would still prefer a botched beheading that takes 1-3 minutes to "Hanged, drawn and quartered", to say one example from that time period.

[@beratedbandit5196]

ever heard of Black Dahlia? You know what never mind, you don't need to know.

[@KingGhidorah5464]

Crazy how we ever thought as a society this was the only reasonable thing to do.

[@lookinforhumanz7640]

A lot of places in the world still do

[@thedrinkinggamemaker9749]

Don't mess with Bess

[@justinedwards5021]

i think its still reasonable to this day for certain crimes

[@hasturthekinginyellow5003]

It was a punishment fit for the crime, and a political move. If Mary was allowed to live she would never be happy as a commoner and the royal families she was a part of would have try to use the fact that she was alive as a tool for the reinstitution of the monarchy.

[@sam91832]

Less we more they

[@mingluke12]

The scene doesn't show blood and brutality but quiet haunting for the first time I watch. It's just powerful and also sad. Can't explain the feeling

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

It sounds like you're going through a tough time. Hang in there, things will get better.

[@kyle381000]

I noticed that they didn't sterilize her neck with alcohol. That kind of carelessness is what leads to infections. No wonder so many people died back then.

[@HTYM]

That's because the English know alcohol is for drinking. Like duh and stuff. 🍺

[@ju2545]

They were already going to kill her

[@terryprideaux]

Like sterilize would of helped her

[@szepi79]

not only the neck, but if you look at the axe, it has rust spots on it. and I don't see any tetanus shots prepared on the screen, so it was a guaranteed death sentence.

[@ju2545]

@@szepi79 she was already going to be killed

[@whereisthehook]

1:45 "I forgive you, with all my heart"

[@Hascuce]

Not if she knew how badly he will botch the beheading

[@Minimeister317]

Not only did the axeman in reality miss her head, when he also picked up the head, it turned out that she was wearing a wig so her head fell to the floor

[@Gallowglass7]

Fs

[@cosmicquestion9184]

In death there is no dignity.

[@kyle381000]

That probably left a mark...

[@Irishjay_94]

@@kyle381000 wow lol

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Through her father, James V, Mary had a claim to the English throne; Mary's grandmother, Margaret Tudor, was daughter of Henry VII of England and sister to Henry VIII of England. Because of her claim to the English throne, she was a threat because Elizabeth had no heirs.

[@josephdery6996]

The fact that humans organize ways to kill eachother is hilarious to me. Same energy as buying a bag of chips and then throwing it out.💀😂

[@alyshakelley403]

Well mary was out to get Elizabeth so once even if it's your own cousin who's more important to protect them or the crown ?

[@BiG-JuPO1O1]

@@alyshakelley403 There no clear evidence, Elizabeth advisors were convincing her to sign the death warrant due to Mary being a threat to the throne and possibly inspiring more Catholics to rise up against Elizabeth to place Mary on the throne. Samething happened to Queen Mary Tudor, both Elizabeth and Mary tried to pardon or refused to sentence their cousin to death. Their advisors either signed the death ticket without their permission and with Queen Mary she had no choice and most likely signed death warrant for Jane Grey.

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

@@alyshakelley403 They could just literally lock Mary away in a dungeon forever, which would've been a more harsher punishment in my opinion.

[@terrib627]

@@_Just_Another_Guy It was more about stopping future rebellions than it was about punishing Mary. Elizabeth wanted no further rebellion plots. As long as Mary lived, there would be pro-Catholic people ready to finance overthrowing Elizabeth.

[@ctt7971]

1:47 what is she whispering to the executor??

[@charlesdeleo4608]

Extremely emotional and moving… and also totally inaccurate. The execution happened outside in a courtyard, and while Mary did wear red as the colour of a Catholic martyr, her beheading didn’t go as clean as portrayed in the film. I won’t mention the gory details, but all I can say is that after she was beheaded and the executioner held her head up by the hair, he failed to take into account that Mary was balding and wore a wig for public appearances…

[@matthewjones3912]

Do u have any friends Charles

[@josmeijers2818]

@@matthewjones3912 I believe so, he sounds like a smart cookie ! do you have any friends matthew ?

[@ethics3]

@@matthewjones3912 Clearly you are one of those " little " men who is threatened by anyone who has more knowledge on a subject than you , and thus you lash out and attempt to denigrate them because that's far easier than YOU actually trying to better your own knowledge . The thing is , when you do what you just attempted to do , EVERYONE see's you for the " little " man that you actually are . You are just not smart enough to realize that . Dunning Kruger ?

[@johnJohn-dz4ex]

@@josmeijers2818 Because he might have looked something up on google? Not saying he did but it's that easy besides cookies get eaten, not so smart.

[@obiitom]

wasn't that gory, the first strike missed her neck and hit the back of her head, second strike hit the neck but did not completely sever the head, her head was still attached by a small tendon/ligament which had to be further cut, apparently her mouth continued to move for 15 minutes after her head was severed from her body.

[@wongfrancis]

The Italian composer Donizetti wrote an opera about her, called "Maria Stuarda", the highlights of the opera were the confrontation scene between her and Queen Elizabeth, and the emotional over the top (singing wise last scene before the execution. This ilm adaptation, may not be the most accurate according to history, but was beautifully filmed with attentions to every small detail.

[@johnschmidt2818]

A beautiful scene. Though her death was much worse I prefer to see this version as far as the movie portrayed it.

[@bambidolly777]

can you explain her death a little ? i don’t know much

[@hasan-mo6el]

@@bambidolly777 i think the executioner had to hit 3 times to chop her head off that's what he's referring to as a much worse death

[@N.A.S101]

@capri "Mary Stuart was sentenced to death by her cousin Elizabeth I for plotting to assassinate her. Mary was queen of france before her husband died in 1561. She came back to Scotland after spending her childhood in France and was queen of scotland before abdicating the throne of Scotland in 1567. She was imprisoned in England for 18 years before being executed

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Mary's execution for treason at the hands of her cousin and captor, Queen Elizabeth I of England.

[@jhetttiernan2623]

In the end she won. Maybe not her bid for the throne, but her bloodline replaced Elizabeth’s as the royalty of England and even to this day.

[@localbod]

You are incorrect. The current British Royal family (House of Windsor) are from Saxe-Coburg Gotha and before that the House of Hanover that began with George I in 1714. Elizabeth I was from the House of Tudor which ceased to be in power in 1603. The House of Stuart came after that until 1714. Therefore, there is no direct lineage from Mary to the current royals as you suggested.

[@jhetttiernan2623]

@@localbod oh. I stand corrected

[@crystalclear7512]

@@localbod No, the current British Royal Family is still directly descended from Mary Stuart through Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Mary's son James. Elizabeth married into German nobility and was the grandmother of George l, King of Great Britain and the first ruler of the Hanover dynasty. So the House of Stuart may be extinct in name but Mary's bloodline persists to this day in the Royal Family.

[@localbod]

@@crystalclear7512 I will concede that there is a lineage from Mary to the house of Hanover. But that's then diluted by Saxe-Coburg Gotha and in my opinion to use the phrase "directly descended" is not right.

[@crystalclear7512]

@@localbod Why not? They ARE directly descended from her. It's not like Mary is just a distant cousin many times removed, she is literally their foremother and they wouldn't be as they are without her genes.

[@cassandrahoward9800]

It's important not to lose your head when you're in this situation.

[@TheEnglish-Saxon]

No pun intended?

[@geoffreyhattersley9186]

How not to lose your head, when all around you are keeping theirs

[@vengeance2825]

Better to not lose your body, as all consideration lies with the head.

[@davidovics92]

wah wah

[@elmexiyankee]

Keep your head up. Everything will get better.

[@DarkSektori]

The music of this scene is incredibly powerful. It enhances the aura of Mary Queen of Scotts, a Queen without a kingdom. Yeah her execution was botched, a tragic end for a tragic life, but Mary to her credit faced her death with incredible courage and dignity. Elizabeth I can't imagine what she must of felt like when she realized that she had just murdered her 1st cousin who was also an anointed Queen.

[@NYCBlonde]

First cousin once removed. Elizabeth was first cousins with Mary's father, James V.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Elizabeth had no choice but to execute Mary, as was the law. Evidence shows that Elizabeth did not like having to behead her cousin not out of kinship or love most likely, but out of fear of the repercussions of killing another queen.

[@carolferris89]

*She did not have a kingdom, instead her son inherited 3 kingdoms.*

[@denisef4904]

And her constant plotting to kill Elizabeth and take her throne was the ultimate cause of her beheading. Mary would not have been the Queen that Elizabeth was. That's just my opinion.

[@RosalingRosado]

This is how is law London I hope stays like that for no one takes advantage of family I hope they figure out soon how is luyan/ Looney tunes and how is trying to crown Mexican? I don't think so the punishment has to be most

[@garygray28]

As Cersei said to Ned Stark “All you needed to do was climb those steps and take the throne. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die”.

[@lower_than_furries9727]

There is no middle ground.

[@johnnyhock]

Samantha Morton was sensational in this movie - love her work ❤

[@LemonGurl.]

2:35 is the saddest part 😭😭

[@smackdaddy9802]

When he moved Mary's hands it felt so real. That really hit me.

[@kinfolk233]

The execution of Elizabeth II’s 12x great grandmother, Mary Queen of Scots. Mary lost the battle but won the war. Every English monarch since 1603 has been her descendant.

[@samswayzie]

Very true as Elizabeth promised Mary’s son James the throne once she died as she wanted to be a queen who never needed a man to rule even thou she really wanted her own children

[@elmondomondo9217]

True

[@bbybella9937]

@@samswayzie she didn’t want children.

[@bbybella9937]

She still lost. She didn’t want her son on the throne or descendants if they were Protestant. Also her descendants honored Elizabeth more than they ever did her.

[@samswayzie]

@@bbybella9937 yes she did

[@frederc3]

It's poetic that the actress (Samantha Morton) playing Mary Stuart here is the same actress now starring in Starz's The Serpent Queen as Catherine de Medici who was Mary Stuart's Mother-in-Law.

[@gannicusfinch7068]

She also played Alpha in The Walking Dead, and died via decapitation.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Mary escaped from Lochleven in 1568, only to be defeated at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow, on 13 May. Fleeing south, she sought shelter in England, believing that Queen Elizabeth I would support her cause, but instead she was kept in captivity in England for 19 years.

[@Blakefe]

To think. After Elizabeth’s death. Marie’s son would be next to ascend the throne.

[@00amandahugnkiss00]

Irony

[@fenrislegacy]

The last Royal House of British origin.

[@theriahs3448]

Let him have the throne. He'd never leave the historical impact that Elizabeth I has left on the world .🌎👑

[@eeeccc3562]

Just as ironic as Henry killing Anne for not having a son basically.

[@bbybella9937]

Well yeah, he sold out his mother to get the throne.

[@rulerofeternity7910]

Samantha in this scene portrayed her every inch a queen.

[@sebby9636]

I mean yes, it’s true that the execution isn’t as accurate as it actually was. But cmon, the real one was soooo much more brutal, they couldn’t have shown it in a movie like this

[@tilesetter1953]

They have shown worse. They should have at least tried to portray the true event with sound, without all the details but showing the spectators reactions.

[@amysill3815]

Because this movie is all PR for ELisabeth, who in actuality was a bloody and ruthless person who tortured and killed her perceived enemies including many innocents.

[@tilesetter1953]

@@amysill3815 Most monarchs were bloody tyrants, not just Elizabeth, including Bloody Mary her cousin.

[@alyshakelley403]

2 cousins & 1 crown Like father like daughter

[@mikipatka5246]

Actully, Elizabeth didn't want to kill Mary bs she knew that would couse war. But her adivisors in the end forced her to singh up for Mary's death. Sorry for my garbige English.

[@1FokkerAce]

Can I have music like this at my end? Slowly sliding out of my Easy Chair, the Gregorian chants increasing as the chip crumbs slide off my shirt and my face lands in the bowl of Cheetos?

[@Johnnyreengo]

sounds like a seth rogen film

[@jamesbutler8821]

And someone running down a hall, screaming, "No, John, not another bag of Cheetos!"??

[@SirFooplesTheThird]

"Are you Mary queen of Scots?" "I am" *screaming*

[@aidanwalsh2545]

Mary lost the battle, but won the war.

[@gaylebanks6246]

How so? Because her son James became king after Elizabeth's death?

[@thevampirecielphantomhive2342]

Elizabeth was the golden age. She decimated Spain and riegned for 45 years

[@nanananaxhhd4330]

@@thevampirecielphantomhive2342 "She decimated Spain" eh not really, she managed to defend her kingdom. Britan would become a superpower long after that

[@Maclabhruinn]

@@thevampirecielphantomhive2342 Elizabeth was the end of the Tudor line. After she died, Mary Queen of Scot's son James was placed on the English throne. The Stuarts ruled England and Scotland jointly from 1603 until 1707, when the office of 'Queen of England' ceased to exist. It was replaced by 'Queen of Great Britain' which included the nations of England and Scotland in a single state. His Royal Highness Franz, Duke of Bavaria is the current Stuart heir to the throne of Great Britain.

[@barrymorentz5190]

Hardly won the war. The Stuarts were a pretty feckless lot, James was highly forgettable but for the Bible translation, and the less said about Charles I the better, which led to Cromwell.

[@jhonsmith7991]

She was waiting for that phone call to save her, but phones were not yet invented.

[@golden8972]

The brutally of that Era. My god.

[@evelynkonig8677]

Genau wie in Frankreich die Guillotine 😮

[@richardsolomon5375]

She just couldn't stop trying to assassinate Elizabeth.

[@MuhammadHassan-hj6mx]

It was like Pringles to her lol

[@CharlesSchwartz-c9s]

Yeah, no not really

[@Gwalion]

Samantha Morton - what a talent!

[@Swissswoosher]

Elizabeth was very upset about Mary’s death but in the end she had no choice but to sign the warrant being under heavy pressure from her advisors.

[@Swissswoosher]

@Wahl berliner Never said she was innocent in this but she was hesitant. She liked Mary and did not feel that threatened. And don’t forget, she wasn’t an all powerful monarch, her advisors had great influence on her decisions. And they misled her to believe them that Mary was involved in the plot.

[@xj900uk]

Elizabeth had hesitated to have Mary exeecuted for years. Not out of mercy or compassion, but rather the fact that it would be setting a precedent of being OK to execeute Monarchs on English soil. Also there was the worry that such an act would really piss the Spanish off (if they weren't already enough pissed)

[@amberlance3221]

Mary was a liability to her power. People forget that Elizabeth was a hard woman, her advisors also told her to get married.. and we all know how that turned out.

[@25242824]

so she was only following orders ?, okay i think we have heard that excuse for murder before.

[@xj900uk]

@@25242824 She was not following orders - Elizabeth 'wore the trousers' in England for sure. She was hard and absolute, but it was the only way to survive. Her advisors had been telling her, whispering in her ears for years to get rid of the Mary problem, but Elizabeth, normally so cold and calculating, vascilated for years before finally making up her mind. She left Mary alone for a lot of the time in England, just prolonging the problem - she should hav eiether had her executed from the off, banished or sent to either Scotland, France or Spain, and let them deal with her. But no, she did none of these things and just left her alone to her own devices in England, usually under some form of 'house arrest'. As long as Mary remained alive and in England she was a threat to the throne.

[@carlmagrath6389]

No misses with the guillotine, chopping heads off as Robin said grisly scene

[@gauloiscalifornien]

We French did it right! 1 hit no miss.

[@armorer94]

Not to be invented for nearly two centuries at this point in history.

[@MrWill9002]

Well, a few things to note about this: 1) Elizabeth was reluctant to kill Mary but it had nothing to do with guilt but because she was worried how the Catholics in England and Scotland would react, never mind the rest of Europe. 2) Executing a queen might set a bad presedite as monarchs are normally seen as above the law. 3) Even after signing Mary's death warrant, she was vague to her secretary on what to do with it 4) Cate Blanchett's displays of grief were like the real Elizabeth's: it was just an act. 5) For obvious reasons they chose to censor what really happened in Mary's execution

[@Serenity113]

Did Queen Elizabeth really asked for the execution to be stopped? You can hear her yell out "Can it be stopped?" and she looked like she was about to break down in tears. Was it regret or worried that she might be wrong?

[@rohitmarwaha9870]

You are right.. but did she felt the pain?

[@AlexxChris]

When she signed Mary’s death warrant she didn’t submit it, until one of her secretary took it secretly and submit it himself without Elizabeth knowing

[@N.A.S101]

@@AlexxChris he then spent months in the tower as punishment

[@davina3358]

I guess Elizabeth really wanted it to stop because her death will cause a scandal which it did. When it comes to political conflicts or oppositions it was always about assassinating or poisoning your enemy but what happened to Mary was completely foul.

[@bernecomp]

Elizabeth was just trying to get ahead in life.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Some have proposed that Elizabeth's hiding serves to keep her pregnancy secret

[@lordalessan]

I love how it's her son James who becomes King after this.

[@mehhandle]

And the current royal family are descended from James daughter Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, her grandson was king George 1st.

[@ИринаЧернова-з6ю]

And her grandson Charles I was executed by the English Parliament, just as Mary herself was curtailed by her subjects in Scotland.A natural cycle in history.

[@LLZ_Lost]

Props to the actor who got their head got off for the making of this scene what a legend

[@TheKonceptor]

Honestly, she deserves more props because she got her head chopped off a second time in The Walking Dead! Still No Oscar??

[@michaellynes3540]

Mary Stuart’s execution was more brutal in real life. Mary was not beheaded with a single strike. The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut through using the axe. Afterwards, he held her head aloft and declared "God save the Queen.”

[@schallrd1]

Mary "I beg your pardon". Elizabeth "Naw".

[@haikaikokoni369_]

Unless one is a complete psychopath, I can't see how an executioner of those times could be unaffected by what his job entailed him to do. She was a Queen, and loved by a kingdom. Everyone knew this.

[@carolferris89]

Not even the Scots love Mary , LOL.

[@josephjoe4180]

Remarkable. Not a phone in sight. Just people living in the moment.

[@Joshwa_richard]

She almost looks chill in that scene, she is like **yeah, go on, I don't care if you sliced my head off**

[@timjohnson1199]

She had been imprisoned for years. Lots of preparation.

[@PrincessButterflySadie]

Mary was described calm and brave in her final moments before being executed.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

I don’t remember music playing in the background…Queen Elizabeth really gave Mary quite the send off

[@mierpaul]

They always cut out the best part!

[@MiaIrvine]

*just mary wearing something stylish for her very last day on earth lol*

[@ewoknips5154]

I see now where they got the inspiration for Dracula's hair style in Bram Stoker's Dracula 😂

[@NBLP7001]

Considering Dracula came out 6 years before this film it would be the other way around.

[@ewoknips5154]

@@NBLP7001haha true, true. it came out more like 10+ years beforehand but i meant more that they got it from the historical person nit the mocie

[@NBLP7001]

@@ewoknips5154 That's right. This is the 2nd Elizabeth movie. For some reason I was thinking of the first one that came out in 1998, six years after Dracula.

[@ewoknips5154]

@@NBLP7001 i feel like how the hell was i interested in that at that age

[@nahduhasu]

The executioner said sorry to her and she forgive him, but then he messed up so bad

[@ahmeden-nia4158]

In the movie, we saw Queen Elizabeth moved to tears and sadness during the decapitation of Queen Mary Stuart, it's a pure interpretation of the director of the movie, I think that Queen Elizabeth was convicted that her decision to execute Queen Mary is legal to preserve her power and her kingdom ; It's simple, she had to kill first her enemies and opponents, instead to be killed, the most powerful take it all; in those times, there was no mercy .

[@esparniaedna]

This is the only comment that is accurate, ppl literally worship Mary, Queen of Scots but they don't know how much times she wanted to kill Elizabeth, they victimize her so much it's irritating. Also the fact that it was like Elizabeth wanted this 'war'. She knew after her it would be James who ascends the throne but she didn't want to put someone in danger by naming someone heir just to be executed

[@woodwyrm]

At least they got the colour of her cloth right, as Mary Stuart was a catholic and about to be beheaded on the order of a protestant Monarch(Elizabeth), it made sense that she'd wear the colour of the Catholic martyr, which is red.

[@ju2545]

That’s an awfully short block…

[@LfLleonewihlBusbus]

According to the history, after the first blow, she don't die as they expected. After two or three blows, her head was detached from her body. The most sad part of her execution is that her own son did not see her again.😢😢

[@alric4106]

1:43 She told him, "My ancestors are smiling at me imperial, can you say the same?"

[@veermudambi5795]

Well played. Well played *slow clap*

[@N.A.S101]

*Nonono* she said I forgive you with all my heart

[@EthalaRide]

It's interesting that this was such an etherial and grandly filmed scene, while historically it was one of the most humiliatingly botched executions for such an important figure.

[@LisaG442]

Elizabeth set a precedent. As an anointed queen, Mary had no peers on earth to judge her, she was answerable to god alone. Elizabeth effectively made kings and queens answerable to lesser men, thereby reducing a sovereign’s power. Including her own

[@neerajkerkar]

A bad precedent to set for monarchs. I think this was one of the points brought up during the trial of Mary’s grandson, Charles I.

[@LisaG442]

@@neerajkerkar I believe Elizabeth l deferred the order as long as she could knowing the enormity of such an act. Guilty or innocent, Queen Mary put her crown in jeopardy and always would do so as long as she lived on English soil. Mary was an absolute idiot to escape to England, she should’ve gone to France. But Mary made one bad decision after the other during her short reign, it was bound to end badly for her.

[@daniel_sc1024]

Her actual execution was not as shown. When she removed her outer garments she was wearing a petticoat and sleeves of red-brown, and a bodice of black satin. The executioner asked for forgiveness, which she granted (that was standard practice back then). Then her attendant blindfolded her with a white veil embroidered with gold. Upon laying her head on the block she said "Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit." The first blow of the axe missed her neck and struck the back of her head. The second blow severed the neck except a piece of sinew, which the axe man sawed through with the axe. He lifted her head up and said "God save the queen." At that point her head fell to the floor; her auburn hair was actually a wig, and she was revealed to have short gray hair. One account has her lips moving after the beheading and a little dog escaping from her skirt, but other exhaustive accounts from eyewitnesses omit those details, so they were probably gross exaggerations. Such botched beheadings were not uncommon at that time. It seems the only qualification to be an executioner was a willingness to do the job.

[@ChrisTopher-zo1vg]

The real execution didn't go as smoothly as that portrayed!

[@fogwat]

Yeah the executioner hit the back of her head then finally partially cut through her neck and had to saw the rest of the way through it. Oh and her head fell out of his hands as he held it aloft because she was wearing a wig if I can recall and rolled around.

[@goodness_graciousme]

What a terrifying and horrible way to go.. she basically suffered. If I'm not wrong Queen Elizabeth regretted giving the green light for the execution. She was said to be pressured by her advisors.

[@habibaniya7920]

@@fogwat Yeah that's right..... Another thing is Mary’s little Skye terrier had been hiding under her petticoat, soaked in blood. 🙂

[@Mors_Inimicis]

He ended up using a Bosch saw after going backwards and forwards to his tool shed muttering ‘Why is it when you go to do a job you can never find the tools’

[@bluevioletandlilac]

The fact Elizabeth didn't extend Mary the mercy her own mother Anne had--that is, a professional swordsman rather than a drunk axeman--makes me think she wasn't as agonized over this as the movie shows.

[@jamesc7019]

So brutal to use the axe which they did on purpose. They could have used the sword like for Ann Boleyn but they wanted to make her suffer. The executioner hacked at her bead & neck 3 times and she was heard groaning. When he lifted the head up off the block she was still talking.

[@MbisonBalrog]

If first shot not kill she likely move. Or was she tied in place?

[@emilish624]

Henry VII believed that he was a related to King Arthur from the Arthurian legends. That idea was past down to Henry VIII and so when Anne was executed it was a reflection of one of the many Arthurian myths. Anyone else who was killed never truly had that type of connection to the legends in order to receive that type of mercy. Or so the historians believe.

[@TheRandompaint]

She was talking? Need vocal cords to be able to do that😂

[@matticchio]

For Anne, an executioner had to be brought over from Calais, since English executioners used axes.

[@thiskid990]

@@TheRandompaint I wouldn’t doubt that her mouth was still moving though, I’ve heard that the eyes still blinked after these executions too. Pretty damn horrifying

[@ThallVic]

"I went down to England to take over the throne. And my cousin Lizzie, she was _really_ pissed at me... So she cut my head off!"

[@kevinbautsch]

Looking back on it, I really enjoyed both of the Elizabeth movies. Which is weird, cause these sorts of movies are not usually my cup of tea. I definitely like the actress who plays the queen for sure.

[@VictorManuelCastilloJimenez]

Mary died at the hands of Elizabeth, however, it was her son James, who managed to sit on the throne of England, thus fulfilling what his mother could not do and thus became James I of England and VI of Scotland.

[@cfrygirl]

Elizabeth knew that if one Queen could be killed so could another

[@maestroclassico5801]

Samantha plays Mary here but recently played one of Mary's rivals, her mother in law Catherine de Medici.

[@finnypaul7748]

Monarchs had their hands stained with blood of family

[@meiray]

Such a different movie from “Elizabeth,” which did not shy away from the raw brutality of the era.

[@janesgems7]

I read a book about her and it described the horror of her death vividly.

[@youtube_sooyaa5971]

Can I have the name of the book??

[@janesgems7]

@@youtube_sooyaa5971 Immortal Queen, by Elizabeth Byrd...I don't know if it's still in print, as I read it YEARS ago; it's a novel but amazingly factual and I couldn't put it down,

[@youtube_sooyaa5971]

Thank you ♡♡

[@kristymcdowell6185]

Omg this is the woman who plays “the serpent queen”. Love her

[@kurleykath.]

Great production ⭐️

[@andrew_owens7680]

That's a very charitable reading of history. I'm pretty certain that Elizabeth was much more cold blooded than that.

[@horizonblack]

We have to fantasize that the powerful regret the horrid things that they have done. Otherwise, we may be forced to act.

[@ravenrey7225]

actually this is pretty accurate portrayal of what elizabeth was feeling, she changed idea several times about the execution, and tried to convince her council to not do it, but it was too late, the council , all 10 of them, decided for her and executed mary in her stead, even tho she didn't want to.

[@amysill3815]

Correct. This is PR for Elisabeth

[@bbybella9937]

I mean I would be? Especially to a woman who tried to kill you numerous times.

[@MuhammadHassan-hj6mx]

And it is said that even in her final years, she expressed regret for the death of Mary

[@johnishikawa2200]

Suffering requires time. Once the first blow strikes, death enveloped her before she had time to think about it. The psychological terror of waiting for that first blow must be much worse. If u don't believe me, ask someone who tucked a hand grenade under their chin and then pulled the pin. They'll tell u that the scary part was counting down those three seconds-getting decapititated by the explosion was a piece of cake!

[@RagtimeAnnie]

Where can I find this person - to inquire of them the details that you refer to ?

[@johnishikawa2200]

@RagtimeAnnie:Of course one cannot ask a deceased person anything and expect an answer. But U.S. marines are trained to count to 3 after pulling the pin off a bomb, before tossing it. The bomb will explode after 5 sec, so they are trained to toss it at the count of three--you know, so the bad guys can't throw it back. But counting those three seconds--that's gotta be nerve wracking!

[@RagtimeAnnie]

@@johnishikawa2200 Thank you for explaining that - Now I understand (having never handled a grenade) what you meant. The timing is everything - and three seconds might be an eternity or an instant ...

[@johnishikawa2200]

@RagtimeAnnie:Me neither--handle a grenade, that is--nor any other deadly ordnances. There's something pathological playing with that stuff. But suppose we could allow Mary to open her eyes for just one look around now--and tell her that some 435 years have gone by since she died? I think she'd say "no way..."! Before Mary was born, eons had passed, and its been only 435 years since her death. That's a vanishingly small interval of time considering geologic time--let alone cosmic time. All of us born into this world are aware of the countless generations that went before, and we are confident that day will follow night for countless generations after we ourselves are long dead. In Mary's time, superstition ruled, and the earth, and the sun were eternal. We know now of course, that it only seems that way because our lives are so short. Our world is but a mote of dust adrift in a vast galaxy among trillions of other similar galaxies. We carry on with our lives here, oblivious to the real forces governing how stable our world is. But the universe knows nothing of us.

[@matticchio]

The first blow struck the back of Mary's head. That gave her more time to think about what was going to happen.

[@MegF142857]

Mary was spared the worst of the worst executions but, regardless, her beheading was horrific. Witness Robert Wynkfield later wrote about the execution. First, she was forced to strip to her underwear in front of dozens of witnesses. As she approached her executioners, one of her servants blindfolded her, so her final moments were in darkness. Witnesses claim the former queen had to spend time feeling around for the block so she could place her chin upon it, ready for the axe to fall. But, sadly, for Mary, her beheading would not be quick and easy. One executioner held her down while the other lifted the axe - but he missed, and the blade didn't go straight through her neck, forcing him to strike again. Mary apparently made "a very small noise or none at all, and not stirring any part of her from the place where she lay" throughout the execution. After two blows, Mary's head wasn't completed severed so the executioner had a third go, to try and cut the "one little gristle" that was attaching her neck to her body. Third time lucky, he lifted Mary's head for all to see and proclaimed, "God Save the Queen". Wynkfield also noted that when the executioner removed Mary's clothing, he noticed Mary's small dog had been hidden under her dress throughout the ordeal. The dog was said to be so distressed, it lay down in his dead mistresses' blood which had formed a puddle on the floor. From Wynkfield's notes: "Then one of the executioners, pulling off her garters, espied her little dog which was crept under her cloths, which could not be gotten forth by force, yet afterwards would not depart from the dead corpse, but came and lay between her head and her shoulders, which being imbrued with her blood was carried away and washed, as all things else were that had any blood was either burned or washed clean, and the executioners sent away with money for their fees." Mary, Queen of Scots was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, but she was later exhumed and buried in Westminster Abbey - just a few metres away from the cousin that ordered her death.

[@DavidNefelimSlayer]

Sic semper tyrranis, and all feudalist are tyrant authoritarians.

[@Mors_Inimicis]

Stripped to her underwear ? As a filmmaker I’d have pissed off the historical pedants (and gladdened kinky bastards like myself ) by having Samantha Morton wearing gorgeous stockings and suspenders under her dress 😋

[@bradhott19]

“Don’t lose your head”

[@vihuynhquang5204]

I read the novel, Cambridge version, called “Mary, Queen of Scots”. At the end of the story, the main protag only vaguely mention her execution as “not one, not two, but three swings” In history, iirc, beheading only required one swing, not only to give convicts the God’s mercy, but to also shown the headsman’s professionalism. To make more than one is to show sloppiness and unprofessional Didn’t know her execution was actually *that* messy Also, in which case did the convict beheaded by a sword?

[@gibblespascack1418]

The axe is not balanced so it is hard to use. Prone to missing. They could have designed it better. BTW, it is in the Tower of London, if you want to see it.

[@Mors_Inimicis]

I always swear by a samurai sword for random beheadings .

[@gibblespascack1418]

@@Mors_Inimicis If I understand this correctly, it was a French sword. Clean and just between heart beats. She is buried in the Chappel on the property.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Mary: "It's just a flesh wound!"

[@AlienSensei]

We should start doing this again to dishonest politicians.

[@jesse3333]

No, because we are better than this.

[@mikekinsella2822]

@@jesse3333 since when?

[@robertspencer1205]

In my opinion I would start doing this again more to the Bernie Madoffs, "Father" John Geoghans and Joseph Conys of the world. 💀

[@nastyab8003]

Dishonest... You spelled ALL wrong

[@Gary-pogi]

And after all the politicians are dead who do we pay to get something done?

[@aleksaknezevic3723]

I don't really understand why did Elizabeth cry and wanted the execution 'to be stopped'. After all, she was the one who signed Mary's death warrant (because of Mary's involvement in rebellions against Elizabeth).

[@hanselm.s.6018]

How could a Scottish queen be found guilty of treason according to the English law?

[@paytongann2180]

Well, for one she was no longer a queen. Second, she ran to Elizabeth for protection, which Elizabeth allowed her to stay in her country for two decades, and Mary conspired against her. Look up the babbington plot.

[@krazyshorty89]

Payton Gann Actually she still was a queen just no throne.

[@paytongann2180]

@@krazyshorty89 She signed a document of abdication which gave the throne to her son. She wasn't a queen anymore.

[@krazyshorty89]

Payton Gann Right but wouldn’t that still make her a queen mother? Not familiar with British law

[@tadimaggio]

@@paytongann2180 Yes, that's true; which makes it all the more remarkable that the court that tried and condemned Mary never once mentioned that fact. During her few days of liberty after escaping from Lochleven (where she had been physically forced to sign the abdication), Mary publicly repudiated the document. Neither Elizabeth nor any other European sovereign ever contested that repudiation. (Elizabeth did not feel secure enough on her own throne to underwrite the idea that all it took to discrown a queen was to hold her down in a chair, grab her right hand, and force her to scrawl a signature on such a document).

[@hugoluxardo3554]

like father like daughter,Tudors were a bunch of slayers

[@_argh.1]

At least Elizabeth had sympathy unlike Henry

[@tommysobo123]

Scene always has been a cut above!

[@bellsTheorem1138]

Don't lose your head over it.

[@noxu2161]

That's a very open minded thought.

[@simplymarvelous4983]

What are you talking about keep your head in the game

[@Revantrekk]

after she got axed, she would never again become the head of an institution. I'm guessing she just got ahead of herself.

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

You have a razor sharp wit. I like the cut of your jib..

[@josephgaribaldi4340]

"I want it stopped" 🧐🧐😆😆🤣🤣CRAP! trying to change history and the truth of her brutality.

[@kingbowserii3029]

3:03 Jeez that shot made the executioner look SO ANGRY. It's like he was glad to be killing Mary.

[@internetkurator9256]

As a Catholic and German/French minor nobility, I simply adore this movie - for the catholic parts. Philipp of Spain is depicted so glorious, including the Escorial and the fleet. Queen Mary was a true queen who was murdered for political reason by the fanatic heretics that dictated English fate for too long. But while Elizabeth is involuntarily shown as a pathetic, weak maniac, plastered with white paint and unable to make long lasting decissions, Queen Mary with her rosary, the self restrained and diginity is simply majestic.

[@yuna_kimori2576]

Even though she did alot of bad things to elizabeth i still felt bad for her like she watched her mother in her very own eyes killed and her father cheating on her mother

[@MAnuscript421]

She also did terrible things to the reformers.

[@amberlance3221]

Are you confusing Mary Queen of Scots (Elizabeth's cousin) with Bloody Mary (Elizabeth's older sister)?

[@zoefloreus7066]

This is Mary Queen of Scots, not bloody Mary. I made the same mistake at first too

[@CharlesSchwartz-c9s]

SHE did a lot of bad things TO Elizabeth -- E had her freaking head chopped off. And she was nowhere near Anne's execution.

[@Ethan_6]

The actress who plays Mary, went on to play Catherine De Medici, Mary's first mother in law

[@ju2545]

1:46 she looks like the queen of hearts from Alive through the looking glass

[@ju2545]

Alice*

[@freddybee4029]

Barbaric sick people. And it still goes on today

[@chadwilkins2097]

They say Mary really lost her head there towards the end...

[@raffinewhaley4710]

This actress went from playing Mary to her mother-in-law Catherine. Get that money sis!

[@hc1897]

Love this movie. But the real Mary Queen of Scots most likely spoke French ...

[@nassauguy48]

Had the Grey family not been disinherited from the succession due to the attempt to put Lady Jane on the throne in 1553 at the expense of Mary Tudor, all of this could have been avoided. Katherine Grey, Jane's younger sister, had married one of the Seymour clan during the early part of Elizabeth's reign, but without Elizabeth's permission. The Queen angrily separated the couple and placed them under house arrest. However, Katherine was already pregnant and had produced a son. HE would have been the next in line, not Mary Stuart. Elizabeth had actually thought about reinstating the Grey family in the line of succession (they were fellow Protestants), but kept them out due to Katherine's marriage without her approval. It was her own stubbornness and anti-marriage obsession that caused all this turmoil, including the execution of Mary Stuart.